Monitoring Status

Monitoring with the Alert View

To monitor system alerts issued by Network Services Manager, click the Alert View tab at the top of the Administration UI window. The Alert View table displays a sortable list of system events, specific to the item selected in the Domain Navigator, and includes the following:

•Reporting object

•Full text of the alert

•Description of the alert

•Alert severity

•Date and time that the alert occurred

You can resize the table columns or hover your cursor over an entry in the table to see the complete text.

Figure 6-1 Alert View

Causes for alerts include:

•A controller has lost connection to the engine.

•A device has lost connection to the controller.

•A device is not responding to queries from a controller.

•A device fails to complete a controller command, such as adding a VLAN or retrieving a configuration.

•A tenant has lost connectivity.

•Configuration requests exceed metamodel limits.

•Credentials on a device have changed, so that the device is no longer reachable.

•Provisioning errors.

Use the information in the Alert View to identify the source of the alert and the problem.